Reimaginar el frente: la retórica cinematográfica del pacifismo
- Autores: Vicente José Benet Ferrando
- Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 55, 2007 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Representaciones de la guerra; Experiencias extremas), págs. 12-39
- Idioma: español
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- A return to the frontline: the film rhetoric of pacifism
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Resumen
During 1930 a post World War I duty towards pacifism manifested itself in the art and literature of the time. Behind this, there was an underlining obligation to consider how to present the violence and suffering from the perspective of a new sensitivity of the time, which aimed to establish ethical principles in the transmission of war images. Two films from this year: All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone) and Westfront 1918 (G. W. Pabst) explored stylistic solutions to the problem of how to represent the war in keeping with pacifistic principles. The well-intended yet hardly effective ideas also reveal the failure of a humanist discourse that could halt the logic of destruction learnt through the extreme modernization of war. This is portrayed through their own photographic and film techniques
